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Title: Where are you getting your music?
Post by: Haveagail on February 20, 2025, 08:07:24 pm

I've been trying to move away from streaming services like Spotify, but it seems impossible. I bought some music from a few artists on Bandcamp and scrounged up the old music off my iPod from like 15 years ago. Where are you getting your music?

Title: Re: Where are you getting your music?
Post by: rachel on February 22, 2025, 02:57:23 am

I use soundcloud and then download all the songs that I like so I have a local copy archived in case it ever gets deleted off the cloud

Title: Re: Where are you getting your music?
Post by: bencain on March 03, 2025, 10:55:55 am

7digital is a drm free British music download site.
 
I highly recommend it for downloading full albums.

Title: Re: Where are you getting your music?
Post by: Mozai on March 04, 2025, 07:44:09 am

Bandcamp (https://bandcamp.com/mozai), every month.  It's the only marketing mailing-list I voluntarily joined.

Soma.FM (https://somafm.com/#popular) has done right by me for years; it's what plays every day on my music-playing appliance in the kitchen.  It's streams, but not proprietary crap like Spotify where I have to spend a third or half of the time trying to get their software to work correctly.  Shoutcast/Icecast streams (http://dir.xiph.org/genres) are great because they're free, it's a well-known format that works with anything not solely some gatekeeping software, and the stream includes whats-playing-now so when you hear something you like you can find who made it and search for more.

incompetech (https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html) by Kevin Macleod, for when I was desperate for music to make intermissions for Monday nights.

Title: Re: Where are you getting your music?
Post by: creature on March 04, 2025, 08:32:44 am

I'm still a heavy Spotify user, but I've also gotten back into listening to the radio. It's nice to have someone else pick music for me! Community/student stations are enjoyably quirky.

I use Triode (https://triode.app), but it's just a nice search/aggregator for standard radio streams. I mostly listen to KUSF (http://www.kusf.org), KPISS (https://kpiss.fm), BFF.FM (https://bff.fm), Nectarine (https://www.scenestream.net/demovibes/), and my local student radio stations.

Title: Re: Where are you getting your music?
Post by: Diabolizer on March 06, 2025, 08:04:26 pm

I love the local(ish) college radio station.  Go Rams!
https://kcsufm.com/

Title: Re: Where are you getting your music?
Post by: bencain on March 10, 2025, 04:34:22 pm

if people like radio, here's mine

https://a4.asurahosting.com:6530/radio.mp3

Title: Re: Where are you getting your music?
Post by: bencain on March 10, 2025, 04:36:48 pm

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